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Senior Software Engineer

Toast
Boston, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/2/2025
Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Sous Chef team to transform how Toast helps its customers run their restaurants.

On the Sous Chef team, our mission is to provide an AI assistant that helps our customers save time by helping them easily answer important questions about their business. We believe that if we do our job right, restaurants using Sous Chef will spend less hours on operations, make better margins, generate more revenue, and have a better guest and employee experience, compared to other restaurants outside and within the Toast ecosystem.

This role includes responsibility for the experience delivered to our end users, the services backing that experience, and the integrations to other Toast products.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

  • Join a collaborative team of Design, Product, QA, and other engineering members in developing robust and scalable full-stack software applications.
  • Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers
  • Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementation meet requirements
  • Participate in architectural discussions and influence the technical roadmap
  • Advocate for best coding practices to raise the bar for you, your team, and the company
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

  • 5 years of back-end experience in Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages
  • Proficient with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. REST, GraphQL)
  • Proficient with non-relational data stores (e.g. DynamoDB)
  • Experience with machine learning or large language models.
  • Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
  • Experience delivering high-quality, reliable services to production
  • Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
  • Passionate about technology and learning new things

Our Spread* of Total Rewards

We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

  • Bread puns encouraged but not required

The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and benefits.

Pay Range

$131,000—$210,000 USD

We are Toasters

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success.

At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.

The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.

Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.

Bready* to make a change? Apply today!

Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.

Salary : $131,000 - $210,000

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